Deno: Proposal: Subcommand to "cat" a remote file

[kizerkizer]

Often I want to see the source of a URL import - unless I'm mistaken, there's no easy way aside from "curl"ing the URL to see the source? If so, I think a deno cat or something similar would be very handy. Maybe a way to navigate the cached dependency tree?

[kitsonk]

Why would something like this not be sufficient:

curl https://deno.land/x/foo/bar.ts

I guess why do you need Deno in the way?

[hayd]

There is an example deno script in std:

deno --allow-net https://deno.land/std/examples/curl.ts URL

You could install/alias this on your machine. (Or you could just use curl as kitson mentions.)

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I don't think deno is, or should be, in the business of making every unix tool a subcommand.

[kizerkizer]

Why would something like this not be sufficient:

curl https://deno.land/x/foo/bar.ts

I guess why do you need Deno in the way?

For some reason I thought I'd need some flags. Yeah, you're right.